Graveyard Shift Open Thread

Welcome night crew. Last night seemed to be a success. This thread is to recap the day's Michigan athletic's news. I am sure with these honest and innocent intentions that it will unravel into a late night booze and illegal substance posbang galore.

Recap:

1. Borges is awesome

2. Mattison is even more awesomer

3. yostlovesme wants a michigan snuggie with a an attractive woman included for x-mas.

4. Old people can coach.

5. Countess is most likely going to be a wolverine.

6. lolcats are awesomest to the point of $30 million.

7. Tate isn't coming back!!!11!!1!

8. Sad Panda

9. Instate coaches hate RR.

14. No Twitter Talk

10. RR was recruiting for Michigan in 2007

11. Anne Hathaway is new Catwoman in upcoming Batman film.

13. Will Hill is a man's man when it comes to multitasking.

12. BlueDragon is awesome

13. MLive are a bunch of ninnies

14. Recruiting is making a comeback

15. DB is a carbon copy robot of Ric Flair combined with the Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase.

Did he earn his large negative total with one poorly thought out post, or is that from multiple bad decisions? FuMan f'd up once. If Ken is a repeat offender, he may have to stay in Bolivian. Where is Profit when we need him?

I was watching That 70's show today and I felt so dirty after seeing Mila Kunis in it. It feels like the morning after when you wake up with your dominatrix. A little awkward but you wouldn't trade the night before for anything.

So it turns into a long-shot where the belt is undone, then goes back to this angle shot -- further along in time -- and the belt is done again. It's totally like magic, or elves, or perhaps, magic elves.

I have to be up for work in five hours and six minutes but am not at all sleepy, my right ankle is purple and probably sprained but I removed the wrap so I could wear super cute boots to dinner tonight and it hurts even more than it did earlier today oh and I'm so completely over my (former) favorite player. How are you guys?

Can't complain. I get to get up late-ish tomorrow (9 AM) for class so I'm enjoying a little extra blog time. I had a test and two quizzes over a three-hour stretch earlier today so I'm probably going to crash soon.

I think we should start an MGoBookclub, or Movieclub. Read a book and/or see a film every couple weeks and discuss it on this here blog. I was going to start a thread about it, but was worried about the non-football related backlash.

I just read the wiki page, which gives a whole new dimension to the book. So HST made a similar journey to that of Kemp - New York to San Juan, but HST didn't end up actually working at the paper, and hung around people who worked for the paper instead.

Concerning the novel he said:

I got the standard list of rejection letters - and I came back from South America and I got into the politics of the 60s and 70s, and it was a full time job." He then said that he revisited the book because "it's got a romantic notion...that and money.. and I was faced with the fact of having to dig out my 40-year old story...I can't change it, like, 'ye gods, this is me, this is the world I lived in'...so I approached it as a writer...it's a good story."

I find this interesting because any time "situations" of youth are documented by memory I think it takes many years to really process what went on, and remember or retell them with an objective, almost wise, mentality. That's sounds like what HST had to do. Yesterday's memories always have hint of today, and it takes quite a while to truly step back and see them for what they are, fucked up. HST had it written, but it seems he didn't recognize what he exactly had until he had separated himself from that particular world for a while.

It is very eerie to see how similar past situations can repeat themselves. I am sure he had to take notes down in a journal. I never knew the story was based off a real experience. That is fascinating. Thank goodness they turned him down for a job or else he may never have came back to the states. I am also sure he has exaggerated and injected hyperbole into the book since that is his MO. Regardless, it worked out for us in the end.

I'm sure all of us could write a HST book off personal experiences. We all have fucked up situations that should be documented. Some more than others.

A lot of the torrent sites have eBooks in various formats compatable with the Kindle or Nook and they also have pdfs. There are programs out there that can convert the files into Kindle/Nook compatable files also. I've used Calibre in the past.

I have the Kindle, my mother has the Nook. The Nook is like a mini Ipad. I like the Kindle because is doesn't use a lot of power and doesn't hurt to look at for a long time. The nook is more friendly to surf the net and doesn't need a light around to read off of. Hope that helps. I don't know the prices of the nook, but the Kindle is $139.

I love the time difference. It's almost 2 AM out west, and I've got an entire sleepless night of early-round tennis ahead of me. This type of non-sleep is so much better than the non-sleep I got during the coaching search.